We had great fun this afternoon at our Christmas Party.

We had an interesting time sharing our Block 2 Homework with each other.  Well done everyone.  You have worked hard on creating interesting games, posters, power points and dioramas.  Here are some examples from P6B.

Primary 6B have been busy making Chocolate Truffles for the school Christmas Fair.

Chocolate Truffles Recipe

Ingredients

• 10 digestive biscuits
• 5 level tablespoons cococut
• 5 level tablespoons drinking chocolate
• 2 oz margarine
• 1 small  tin of condensed milk
• chocolate vermicelli

Method

1. Crush biscuits into crumbs
2. Add coconut and chocolate powder
3. Melt margarine and add to mixture
4. Add tin of condensed milk
5. Roll mixture into  small balls
6. Roll the balls in chocolate vermicelli or coconut

Choose at least one of the following activities and complete for  5^th December 2019 when both classes will share their homework with each other.

• Design a game based on addition or subtraction that includes examples of each: written method, mental strategies, language of addition/subtraction.
• William Wallace lived as an outlaw in the Scottish Borders. Design a WANTED poster for William Wallace. Think of the adjectives that would be used by those who would have wanted to capture him.
• In writing we are looking at recount texts. Choose an event that was memorable and write a recount using paragraphs and the structure of title, orientation and sequence of events.
• Find out about what life was like during the time of William Wallace. What were the houses like inside? How did they cook, sleep, and eat? Make a diorama that shows the inside of a house; rich or poor.
• Choose one aspect of life during the Scottish Wars of Independence eg. Clothes, food, houses, weapons and make a PPT that you can share with the rest of the class.

Primary 6B have came back to school enthusiastic and ready to learn after having a lovely October break.

Waiting for Charlie and Murray were letters from the author they had written to in Primary 5.   David Baddiel had written back much to the boys’ excitement.

Charlie said that he was really excited when he saw the letter and he liked David Baddiel’s comment at the end saying that he gets his ideas from his imagination and from his son.

Keiren had written to his favourite author David Baddiel  in Primary 5.  We were all excited when he received a reply today.

For art we upcycled newspapers by making some beautiful flowers.

This  block we have been learning about the following

hockey

pollution

big numbers

shape – 3D and 2D shapes

onomatopoeia

key boards

up-cycling

metaphors

adverbs

Primary 6A and Primary B shared their Block 1 homework this afternoon.

• upcycling ideas were great
• super onomatopoeia posters were made
• number games and big number posters and power points were created
• identifying shapes in the outside world
• and more

Here is a small selection

Primary 6B were exploring different types of triangles.

Equilateral Triangles;  all three sides equal, all 3 angles equal and no parallel or perpendicular  lines.

Isosceles Triangles; two sides are equal and two angles are equal.

Right Angle Triangle;  one angle is 90 degrees and  has perpendicular lines.

Scalene Triangle;  all 3 sides and angles are different.

We have also been looking at the nets of 3D shapes.

We made cubes with 6 squares.

We made cuboids with four rectangles and two squares.

We made triangular prisms with three rectangles and two triangles.

We made square based pyramids with one square and four triangles.

We made triangular based pyramids with 4 triangles.

We made regular dodecahedrons  with 12 pentagons.

We made octahedrons with eight triangles.

Well done to our newly elected representatives who were elected this week.

Lauren is our new Class Council rep.

Well done also to Jay, William and Callum who also stood.

Roderick is our new Sustainable Squad rep. Well done also to Alfie and Erin who also stood for election.

Roderick wowed us with his speech which was;

I believe that the environment is the most important thing because without the environment we wouldn’t exist. We have amazing mountains, incredible seas and breath taking animals that need protecting. WE CAN’T lose them!

I promise that I will help the Sustainability Squad engage with the whole school and do something about the environment.

Well done to everybody -they were closely fought elections.